How NOT to place an aircraft restoration!!!

Photos taken at the old NAS Alameda.
After 2-1/2 years of volunteer
restoration work on the A-4, which had blown over in a wind storm, it was to
be put back on the display pedestal.

Not only did it get dropped a few feet onto the pedestal but the
crane tipped on its side and the whole arm fell on the plane. Note crane
support jack timber on grass area, insufficient to bear weight of crane and
A-4.

Rich Faletto sent this picture of an A-4 falling and being hit by the crane while being replaced on its pedestal at the former Naval Air Station Alameda (Those of you who flew out of there may remember it as NGZ. It was a great little base.).